sleep apnea

English

Alternative forms

• sleep apnoea

Noun

sleep apnea (countable and uncountable, plural sleep apneas)

1. (pathology, American spelling) Brief interruptions of breathing during sleep.

Translations

brief interruptions of breathing during sleep

• Catalan: apnea del son f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 睡眠呼吸暫停／睡眠呼吸暂停 (shuìmián hūxī zàntíng)

• Czech: spánková apnoe f
• Dutch: slaapapneu (nl) f
• Finnish: uniapnea (fi)
• French: apnée du sommeil (fr) f
• German: Schlafapnoe-Syndrom n
• Irish: aipnia chodlata f
• Italian: apnea notturna f, apnea nell sonno f
• Japanese: 睡眠時無呼吸 (suiminji mukokyū)
• Korean: 수면 무호흡증 (sumyeon muhoheupjeung)
• Latvian: miega apnoja f
• Maori: moe hātū
• Polish: bezdech senny m
• Slovak: spánkové apnoe
• Spanish: apnea del sueño
• Swedish: sömnapné (sv)
• Turkish: uyku apnesi (tr)